ellie <3s crafts

Cloth Napkins

ellie — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:22:53 +0000

I haven’t had much time for crafting since Millie came along, but today Rick took charge long enough for me to whip up 4 cloth napkins with some fabric I had been holding on to. I originally planned to make tea towels with it, but I now have a ton and a half of those thanks to an awesome aunt who sent me several hand embroidered ones. I did each set of seams in a different colored thread for funsies.

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Vegan Eats World!

ellie — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:16:35 +0000

So awhile back I was a recipe tester for Terry Hope Romero‘s new cookbook – Vegan Eats World. And now it’s out! And it’s gorgeous! And I got a free copy for helping out! I wish I had found time to participate more, but I had a great time and was very much not expecting to get a copy for my meager number of recipes tested. So that’s pretty awesome.

Here are the recipes that I tested.

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Robots!

ellie — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:20:38 +0000

Same pattern as Sadie’s jumper and hat. I’ll put the elastic in the bloomers once it’s summertime and there’s a baby to measure.

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Sadie’s Jumper & Hat

ellie — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:04:14 +0000

As modeled by Sadie! Still not pictured: reversable-ness, matching bloomers. It fits fine now (maybe a little big). Hopefully it will still fit well this coming summer since that’s the goal.

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Finished Baby Blankets

ellie — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:55:41 +0000

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Sadie’s Jumper & Hat

ellie — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:36:38 +0000

As modeled by Giggles the bear. Not pictured: reversable-ness, matching bloomers.

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Sewing bug

ellie — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:18:34 +0000

I have been wanting to want to do some crafting, but nothing has caught my interest lately. I keep looking through my craft closet at various yarns and fabrics thinking both, “I really should use these up” and “I really should make something for my niece and for my coming little one.” But then I pack everything back away, uninspired.

I have a pack of white onesies that I thought I might embroider something onto, but only got as far as the waves before I lost interest. I don’t know what color to make the sails…

Today I finally made myself head to the store to get backing fabric for an unfinished quilt and saw a cute little girl’s dress and tons of cute fabrics and remembered that my friend Claire said her best project for her baby was a bunch of quick one yard baby quilts.

The top 4 fabrics are for two quick quilts. They’ll be the quick sewn together and flipped inside out, no binding, no piecing style. I haven’t decided for sure which ones will go together, but I think it will be how they’re paired in the picture. The rockets and robots on the left will be for my baby and the gnomes and mushrooms on the right will be for my niece. Pattern in the middle. It looks like a super quick and easy pattern and at least one reviewer also says it is.

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Baby Blanket – All Done

ellie — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:43:30 +0000

All done! I had a lot of issues getting the binding on, mostly because I was trying to finish in a hurry and not being careful enough. But I was able to go back in with hand stitching and fix them all.

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Baby Blanket

ellie — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:16:16 +0000

I’m working on a little quilt for my new niece. I didn’t have quite as much fabric as I thought I had, so instead of all little blocks they went into a frame. The binding will be the green on the back. I like the back way better than the front. I think I should start making both sides of all my quilts like the back of this one.

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Not very cute sweater

ellie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:50:09 +0000

It’s Margot from Knitty and it’s just not doing anything for me.

I’ve been dragging my heels debating on whether to finish this or rip back and maybe make something that would actually fit me. I gave up and finished just to be done with it, but it’s going in the goodwill bag. On a positive note, I’m hoping this being finally off the needles will motivate me to start something new.

Here’s the shot where it looks fine:

and here’s what it really looks like

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